WARNING VS. DRUG PUSHERS–A coffin is placed on the roadside in Barangay San Leon, Umingan in full view of passing motorists as a threat to drug pushers who insist on their illegal activities in the village. Back to Homepage
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UMINGAN–Death to drug pushers! This is the strong warning sent out by one barangay in this town by displaying a coffin right at the entrance to the village. Prominently displayed on the side of the national highway, the coffin is hard to miss and motorists passing through coming from and…
Coffin on display warns drug pushers
THERE will be no extension on the November 30 deadline set by the Dagupan City government for the dismantling of all illegal fishpens and other structures in the city’s rivers. “November 30 is the deadliest deadline. I will do the dismantling myself, if they still remain in the river after…
No deadline extension for illegal fishpens
CHRIST THE KING CELEBRATION–A huge crowd of Catholic devotees give way to priests walking towards the stage installed in front of the provincial capitol ahead of the main Holy Mass celebrant Archbishop Socrates Villegas during the archdiocese’s Christ the King celebration in Lingayen on November 21, hosted by the provincial…
CHRIST THE KING CELEBRATION
LINGAYEN–Some 30,000 Catholics from four Vicariates of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese gathered at the Capitol grounds on November 21 for this year’s Christ the King festivity, the first time that the celebration was held in conjunction with the provincial government. Archbishop Socrates Villegas stressed in his homily during the Mass that…
Gov’t-Church ‘bonding’ in Cristo Rey celebration
BACTERIA SCARE—Doctors Calixto Alano, Michael Canto and Arnel Gazmin (left to right) of the Region 1 Medial Hospital hold a press conference to clarify a purported report that some wards in the government-owned hospital have been closed due to deadly microscopic bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Back to Homepage
BACTERIA SCARE
A RUMOR about the widespread presence of a deadly miscroscopic bacteria in the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) last week caused public panic and fear particularly inside the hospital. R1MC officials, in a hastily called press conference, explained that the scare was without basis since the bacteria known as Pseudomonas…
R1MC downplays bacteria scare
PASTORAL STATEMENT NO to gambling. No to Small Town Lottery (STL). Thus declared Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan in his Pastoral Statement issued on November 13. “We reject the culture of gambling as a means of livelihood,” the statement declares.
Archbishop Soc slams gambling, says ‘No’ to STL
SWAT EFFICIENCY TEST–Members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) of Pangasinan demonstrate their efficiency level in handling armed suspects on board a car during the Annual General Inspection Team and Evaluation held recently at the PNP Provincial Office. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka) Back to Homepage
SWAT EFFICIENCY TEST
ASINGAN–The repatriation of the remains of three Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) who died in Dubai last week when their apartment caught fire two weeks ago is now being expedited. According to Board Member Ranjit Shahani, Philippine Consul General Benito Valeriano in Dubai Wednesday had assured him of the consular office’s…
